Artist : Lazuli

Album : Saison 8

Release Date : 10-03-2018

Added : 04-06-2018

I quoted 'Lazuli' in my last review and it is therefore natural that I speak about the last album 'Season 8' of the French who released 'Nos Ames Saoûles' in 2016 (see here). A broadcast on 'France Inter' in early May and a European tour in 2018, we start to talk about them and for having participated to the concert in z7 near Basel early April (great concert !), I can tell you that the French groups do not run the streets in this place. This last opus is in line with the previous one with new compositions where we immediately recognize the style of the group with the voice of 'Dominique Leonetti' who continues to embark us in his poetic texts and this so personal musical atmosphere with the accompaniment with the ‘Leode’ of 'Claude Leonetti' (an instrument he invented and whose name is simply the contraction of the beginning of his name and the end of his first name). From the beginning, with ‘J’attends un printemps’, a melancholy invades us and we let ourselves be carried away by a crescendo of which they have the secret. Follows in the same style, ‘Un Linceul de brume’ and its beautiful final instrumental melody then, ‘Mes Amis, mes frères’, the title certainly the most rock alternating softness and energy leaves room for ‘Les côtes’ with its very strong message to denounce this humanitarian disaster of the migrants who continue to die at sea. The following is the image of this beginning with this particular style alternating tension and relaxation that is in a sense this trademark 'Made In Lazuli'. In summary, the ‘Gardois’ of 'Lazuli' continue to release quality albums and show once again with 'Season 8' that they are a major formation of the French progressive landscape...

Line Up / Musicians

Claude Léonetti (Léode, Choirs), Gédéric Byar (Guitar), Dominique Léonetti (Vocal, Guitar, Mandolin), Romain Thorel (Keybords, French horn, Choirs), Vincent Barnavol (Drums, Percussions, Choirs)